Shelf location: This collection is stored off-campus at NRLF. Please contact the Water Resources Collections and Archives staff for access
to the materials.

Language:
English.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Water Resources Collections and Archives. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Archives. Permission for publication is given on
behalf of the Water Resources Collections and Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or
imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

B. Abbott Goldberg was born in Fitchburg, Mass., in 1916. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School.
He moved to California in 1944 and taught four years at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. From 1948 to 1961 he
was deputy and later assistant attorney general of California, handling the major litigation concerning the state's interest
in the Central Valley Project. He also was in charge of the attorney general's office section concerned with education and
welfare law. From 1961 to 1966 he served as deputy director and chief deputy director of the California Department of Water
Resources. He also acted as special counsel to the governor on the legal problems of water development. He was appointed a
judge of the Municipal Court in Sacramento in 1966 by Gov. Edmund G. Brown.

Scope and Content

Papers include legislative histories of San Luis Act of 1959, Reclamation Act of 1902, Central Valley Project Act of 1933,
and the Federal Power Act; also includes cumulated material on "unjust enrichment" in operation of State Water Project and
on court cases involving the Dept. of Water Resources in period 1950-65; files on State Water Project financing.